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Read the Library 2025

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9 participants (51 books)

01 Jan 2025—31 Dec 2025

Overview

Join me in reading 12 (or more!) library books throughout 2025 

Physical, ebooks, audio books - however you read it so long as you borrowed it from the library they count!

Challenge Books

All books added
Devil's Thirst by Jill Ramsower

Devil's Thirst

The Moretti Men #1

Jill Ramsower

322 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

fiction romance
Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth

The Locked Tomb #2

Tamsyn Muir

19 hours, 51 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction fantasy lgbtqia+ science fiction adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced
Be Ready When the Luck Happens by Ina Garten

Be Ready When the Luck Happens

Ina Garten

320 pages • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink memoir funny inspiring reflective medium-paced
Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

Other Birds

Sarah Addison Allen

304 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

fiction magical realism emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch

The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book

Wendy Welch

291 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction memoir lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Good Poems for Hard Times by Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keats, Erica Funkhouser, W.H. Auden, Sharon Olds, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Herman Melville, Hayden Carruth, Patricia Hampl, Carl Dennis, X.J. Kennedy, Carl Sandburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, Fleur Adcock, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Liesl Mueller, Rita Dove, Lawrence Raab, Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Robert Burns, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Garrison Keillor, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilaire Belloc, Kate Light, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Billy Collins, Thomas Hardy, Jane Kenyon, Noël Coward, Louis MacNeice, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Galway Kinnell, David Ignatow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost

Good Poems for Hard Times

Good Poems

Jennifer Michael Hecht, John Keats, Erica Funkhouser, W.H. Auden, Sharon Olds, E.E. Cummings, Kenneth Rexroth, Wendell Berry, Herman Melville, Hayden Carruth, Patricia Hampl, Carl Dennis, X.J. Kennedy, Carl Sandburg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, John Berryman, Fleur Adcock, Philip Booth, Howard Nemerov, Mary Oliver, Liesl Mueller, Rita Dove, Lawrence Raab, Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Robert Burns, Stephen Dunn, Stephen Dobyns, John Donne, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Garrison Keillor, Raymond Carver, Elizabeth Bishop, Hilaire Belloc, Kate Light, W.S. Merwin, Charles Bukowski, William Blake, Billy Collins, Thomas Hardy, Jane Kenyon, Noël Coward, Louis MacNeice, Emily Dickinson, Grace Paley, Virginia Hamilton Adair, Galway Kinnell, David Ignatow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Jim Harrison, Robert Frost

344 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction poetry emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan

Do Your Worst

Rosie Danan

336 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

fiction contemporary romance adventurous funny lighthearted medium-paced
Climbing Days by Dorothy Pilley

Climbing Days

Dorothy Pilley

386 pages • first pub 1935 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel challenging informative inspiring medium-paced
Lovely One by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Lovely One

Ketanji Brown Jackson

18 hours, 26 minutes • first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction memoir informative inspiring reflective slow-paced
If Cats Disappeared From The World by Genki Kawamura

If Cats Disappeared From The World

Genki Kawamura

168 pages • first pub 2012 (editions) user-added

fiction magical realism emotional reflective sad fast-paced